The Laundromat (2019)

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	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Contagion, Che)
	Actors: Gary Oldman (The Fifth Element, Darkest Hour), Antonio Banderas (The 13th Warrior), Meryl Streep (The Mandchurian Candidate)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 26.03.2020, VOD, 14" computer screen.
Synopsis: A widow (Streep) investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners (Oldman & Banderas) exploiting the world's financial system.
Review: I selected almost randomly this Netflix production to watch and it was not bad. It took me the whole movie to realize it is based on the true events of the (spoiler, highlight to read) Panama Papers. The first most noticeable thing about the movie is how it breaks the fourth wall: not only the two partners talk to the audience but they travel from set to set, and at the end we even see the backstage. Then the dissociated structure is disturbing at first, but funny in fact. After thirty minutes in a parenthesis you realize you are in fact in something closer to another segment in an anthology movie. The attachment to details in the life of more or less normal people reminds of the style of the Coen Brothers at times. The Laundromat is not particularly exciting to watch or delivering bursts of laughter, but it is pleasant and short enough (1h30) to be easy to watch when looking for something fresh.
Rating: 6 /10